Especially when you consider that they play Bo3 series' in their regular split. Hopefully switching to Bo3 will help them in the Knockout Stage.
Not really even an NA fanboy - I just like seeing some actual competition.
Yfrappefort9 votesMeteos just need to stop playing Lee Sin. On topic tough, yeah NA seems very solid, probably the strongest the region has ever been. It's just a matter of how they can adapt during Bo3 and Bo5.
Must feel bad being an EU fan tough. All their teams are just falling apart.
Killerjays1 votesWhat can meteos play as a JG besides Zak and Rek Sai
Mazariamonti2 votesElise, Olaf, evelynn, Gragas...in the end it won't ever really come to that. They can only ban out so many champions when Jensen and Impact are such dominate laners.
Spaceman5pff1 votesI don't know if he kept up the practice, or if the pick is even still viable, but Meteos was one hell of a Kindred player at one point.
Only Play Darius1 votesI'm pretty sure he's an Elise main
DREADN0UGHT8 votesI'm of the opinion that if C9 get out of group stage, they will be much stronger being a very skilled team in the art of adapting in bo3s and 5s
Yxgl222HaX2 votesYeah but if they plan on getting out they have to put on their carry pants. None of this dying to gromp at 60 mins crap. We all know they can do better than this, and they know it. Quite frankly though it looks to me like they have the hardest group with SKT looking like the true KR first seed (they always do in worlds) and flashwolves not rolling over to die. Even imay is putting up a fight so its pretty hard to call.
DREADN0UGHT5 votesI'm pointing fingers at jensen. He came into the SKT game with an obvnoxious attitude and just plainly did not respect faker for what he is. He needs to sit the fuck down and focus.
Yxgl222HaX5 votesTheres nothing wrong with being cocky, if you have the skill to back it. Id be willing to bet they saw his twitter posts before the match and decided to have the jungler camp mid then it was easier than even they expected with that fail af first blood. Smack talk is all part of any game and its in good fun it sorta raises the stakes, unfortunatly though for jensen most people who do end up on the receiving end of a beating lol
DREADN0UGHT2 votesBeing cocky is fine, sure. But his twitter post was literally translated into: Faker is easy and I will destroy him.
Not so fast good sir lol
SmileInABox4 votesI was so happy to see the cocky fuck get bitch slapped back to his place.
DREADN0UGHT2 votesHe deserved it. That is for sure.
Spaceman5pff1 votesYeah but if they wanna win past groups, Meteos needs to clean the shit off his glasses so he can start seeing the early map pressure.
Not sure if the key is getting him off that Lee Sin, but both times he played it it was easy to forget he was even on the stage, which is not what you wanna be doing with Lee Sin.
DREADN0UGHT1 votesYeah, its not even that hard to First blood Faker anyway from what we've been seeing.
Yxgl222HaX1 votesnah man, gatta get that gromp
Mazariamonti3 votesI'm not going to feel good about anything until I see their names locked in to the quarter finals. Last year was just way too fucking demoralizing. I mean looking back on it now we really should have seen the 0-10 coming but whoo that was rough. Hopefully never again.
DarkRitual3 votesIt was hard to see an 0-10 coming when C9 was on a warpath.
Iwinatlife423 votesI remember the Veigar tristana game aka the most oppressive siege possible
Mazariamonti2 votesIt was hard to see but monte was calling it on the desk, they pretty much only used one strategy week one and when they got called on it they had no answer.
III BAKURYU III 1 votesYeah C9 up 3-0 to only lose 3-4 same thing for TSM 1-2 ending 1-5 and CLG 2-0 ending 2-4.
C9 and CLG had the same type of playstyle of playing a bot lane ADC that can just shove in and destroy the bot tower quickly and move over to MID tower as MID is the most important and it became predictable after 4-5 games and teams figured out NA's playstyle.
Angry Monster2 votes0 and 10 the dream, I still believe that we can fuck this up
I prefer we dont though
Spaceman5pff3 votesThis is NA, we can fuck up anything we set our minds to!
SOURCE: My college career.
Legendary Silver1 votesIt definitely goes to show that certain analysts don't really know what they're talking about. The NA Olaf has translated into a pretty strong pick for NA teams. Even SKT/ROX and other big name teams are picking/banning it now. All summer split long from certain Korean fanboys all we heard is how dumb the pick was and how useless it was.
We'll have to see when it gets to Best of 3 and Best of 5 what happens but NA is doing well. The wildcards look good.
Jaunty4111 votesKnockout stage is all Bo5.
